Excavating and loading machine.



J. BINGAMAN.

EXOAVATING AND LOADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1908.

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J. BINGAMAN.

EXGAVATING AND LOADING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17,1908.

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, caster wheel 11 controlled by a steering post and wheel 12 in convenient position in front improved means for chine and for controlling and operating a lower or supporting .TOSEPHUS BINGAMAN, 0]. GARXETT, KANS HUNLEY, OF GA AS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'lO GEORGE W.

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EXCAVA'IING AND LOADING IVIACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 17, 1908.

Patented. Jan. 19, 1909. Serial No. 444,030. I

T '0 all where it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOSEPHUS BINGAMAN, citizen of the United States, residing at (larnett, in the county of Anderson and State'of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Excavating and Loading Machines, of which the following.

lS a specification.

This invention is a machine for excavating and loading dirt, manure, hay, cane, and the like, and its principal object is to provide manipulating the matilting beam or frame which carries a dumping shovel, fork, or the like, for lifting and dumping the material.

The machine is characterized by lightness but one man-for control of the team used to draw the same.

The construction vention will be more fully evident from the following description and the accompanying drawings, 'in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine in one position; Fig. 2 is a similar elevation Fig. 3 is a top\plan view; and Fig. 4tis a rear end view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the frame of the machine consists of substantially parallel longitudinal bars 6 connected across at the front by braces Tand having a platform 8 at the rear. This frame ismounted on. an axle 9 at the front, carriedby wheels 10. At the rear it has a of the seat 13. The'team is attached with one horse at each side-to a cross bar 14 at the rear, each horse being attached or yoked to an arm 15 at the front.

At or about the middle of the frame a pair of braced posts 16 to or between which the tilting beam is pivoted. This beam consists of side bars 17 and cross braces 18 and 19, the latter being bentdoxl'n or dropped to d for operating be out of the way of the r the shovel 2O.- Tiis shovel between the fron ends of fork or the like in shovelffor handling hay or such material. The shovelis connected by an arm 22 and rod 23 to a lever 24. This lever is fulcrumed at 25 at the head of a hollow standard 26 mounted on the platform 8, at the left hand is pivoted at 21 the bars 17. A

y be used instead of the i has a segmental rack 80 and simplicity of construction, and requires its operation, including the 12 at the sid of the and features of the inside. The pivot 25 to which the lever is fixed extends across vided in the recess thereof with a ratchet wheel 27 which is adapted to be engaged by a detent 28, comprising a rod which is slidable up and down in the hollow of the standard. This rod is bent out or oli'set at its lower end through a slot in the side of the standard, as indicated at 28. The detent is normally pressed upwardly into engagement with the ratchet wheel by a spring 29, but may be disengaged by the pressure of the foot of the operator on the foot-piece 28; and when the detent is disengaged the lever may be operated to dum the shovel.

One of the side bars 17 of the tilting beam at the rear end the standard and is prothereof which moves in engagement with aa hollow standard platform opposite to the standard 26. he pmion 31 is mounted on a crank shaft which may be turned by the operator, and thereby the tilting beam is pinion 31 set in the top of ra1sed or lowered to lift or drop the shovel.

engagedfrom the pinion, allowing the sameto run free, or to be operated by the handerank, The tilting beam is provided with a box 4.0 to receive weights to counter-balance.

the weight at the front end of the beam.

In operation, the front end of the beam is tilted down to lower the shovel, and the team is advanced to drive the shovel into the pile of material, and when the shovel is, loaded the crank 33 is operated by the driver and the front end of the beam and-the shovel are lifted, and the machine may then be drawn by the team to the dum and the shovel is dmnped by manipulatio n of the lever 24. As stated, a fork may be substltuted for the shovel for handling hay. The tilting beam may be elevated to,any desired extent to pile dirt or manure 01' stack-hay. The machine may be used, for instance, for distributing manure from,a pile in the field, and generally for excavating and transportbacked, by reason mg dirt. The team and machine may be of the connection at thellO front with the arms 15. The frame of the machine and the tilting beam are preferably made of structural iron, so as to be light and strong.

Various modifications may be made in'the structure, which is not limited to the special form shown and described, nor otherwise than is indicated in the following claims.

I claim: I

l. The combination of a wheeled frame having .draft devices at opposite sides thereof for attachment of draft animals, a tilting beam pivoted on the frame and having a lifting and dumping implement at the front end thereof, means to operate the beam, and means to operate the implement.

2. The combination of a wheeled frame, a tilting beam pivoted .thereen and projectin beyond the front end thereof, a'htting a'n dumping implement carried at the front endof the beam, a segmental-racl'rat the rear end of the beam,'and a crank shaft mounted on the frame and having'thereon "a pinion meshing with the memo. tilt the beam.

8. The combination-of a wheeled frame, a

- tilting beam pivoted thereon and provided at its-"front end withan implement and at its rear end with a segmental rack, a stand ard mounted on the frame at the rear, a crank shaft carried in hearings on the standard and having thereon pinion in mesh with the rack, and a detent mounted in a guide on the standard and normally engag ing the rack to lock the same.

a. The combination of a wheeled frame, a

The combination of a frame, a supporting axle and wheels at the front end thereof,

a steering wheel at the rearend, draft devices at opposite sides of the frame, behind the front wheels, and excavatin and dumping devices mounted upon the rame.

6. The combination of a frame, a tilting beam thereon, a lifting and dumping implement pivotally mounted at the front end of the beam, and a lever mounted on the rear end of the 'frameiand connected to the implement tooperate the same. 'In testimony whereof, I afii my signature in presence of two witnesses. 

